To the Frontier

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To the Frontier is the compelling and vivid account of Geoffrey Moorhouses three-month journey through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North-West frontier of Pakistan. From there he reached the closed Khyber Pass and the border with Afghanistan which he was - uniquely - permitted to cross, and scaled the highest peaks of the Hindu Kush. Moorhouses evocation of a beautiful, turbulent and little-known region is masterly and unforgettable. It was high time someone put Pakistan on the travel bookshelf, and this is what Geoffrey Moorhouse has done - with style, relish, much wit and enormous good humour No one has better captured the scenic contrasts of this diverse country. Sunday Telegraph

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Geoffrey Moorhouse has been described as one of the best writers of our time (Byron Rogers, The Times), a brilliant historian (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph) and a writer whose gifts are beyond category (Jan Morris, Independent on Sunday). His numerous books -- travel narratives, histories, novels and sporting prints -- have won prizes and been translated into several languages: To the Frontier won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of its year. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2006 he became Hon DLitt of the University of Warwick. He has recently concentrated on Tudor history, notably with The Pilgrimage of Grace and, in 2005, Great Harry's Navy, which has just been followed by The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery. Born in Lancashire, he has lived in a hill village in North Yorkshire for many years.